This past weekend at the JAEPO arcade game expo in Tokyo, Konami showed off Dance Dance Revolution, the latest arcade iteration in the Dance Dance Revolution franchise. The return to the core name makes sense because Dance Dance Revolution will ha...

Want to feel like Kirito without all of the problems that come with carrying around actual swords? There’s a bag for that. This meter-long bag (that’s about 3 ¼ feet for us Americans) is a replica of Kirito’s Elucidator.

A new series is kicking off on Crunchyroll this week, with the addition of GJ Club to the winter 2013 streaming lineup. Episodes will debut every Wednesday at 11:00 am Pacific Time starting on February 20.

It's understandable if some of you have lost all hope for Final Fantasy Versus XIII, but fear not, because its name has popped up once again! Just… not in the way you might expect. Hidemi Matsuzuka, General Manager of Square Enix's Play Arts Kai f...

Kaname Jun preparing to get married by ustar on February 19, 2013 at 4:46 am On February 19th, it was revealed that actor Kaname Jun (31) is preparing to get married. Kaname’s agency released a fax statement after several sources reported the acto...

There are certain anime and manga that only appeal to otaku or other niche audiences. Then there's One Piece. There's a reason why a movie like the recent Film Z would collect over 5 billion yen in the box office.

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He has fans around the globe and his novels have been translated into numerous languages, and now readers are only two months away from his latest work. Well, readers in Japan that is. Haruki Murakami&lsquo;s Japanese publisher, Bungeishunju, anno...

Disgaea games create entire dungeons for each item in the game. The Item World concept is still in Disgaea Dimension 2 and Nippon Ichi changed it into the Item Sea. Players will run into pirate ships in the Item Sea and if you’re lucky you’ll stum...

Few Japanese movies see the light of day outside of its home country, much less screened simultaneous both in Japan and abroad like director Naoto Kumazawa’s (Kimi ni Todoke live-action) latest film, Jinx!

You might be surprised as we're just covering psycho pass despite the fact that it's been around for months now. As most of you have noticed most of the past these days are concentrated in episode reviews and I think we'll be covering the future p...

Square Enix’s glorious policy of recycling as much of the Final Fantasy franchise as possible rather than risking any new games has yet again born fruit – in the form of Final Fantasy X HD, for the PlayStation Vita.

Con season has begun! Many weekends will have multiple cons in many cities from now on and last weekend was one of them. I visited Animation On Display in San Francisco, CA and took photos of cosplayers there.

GTO: 14 Days in Shonan vol. 7Revenge is a dish best served by Onizuka By Joseph Luster Be the first of your friends to like this. Posted 2/18/2013 Eikichi Onizuka's return to his old stomping grounds of Shonan has been a long and hard road thus fa...

An otome game is like a visual novel gal game/dating sim, but for the ladies. And, though Gintama originates in prominent boys' manga magazine Shonen Jump, it's little secret that the series isn't hurting for female fans.

It’s been revealed that T. M. Revolution and Mizuki Nana will be teaming up to sing the opening theme for new anime, ‘Kakumeiki Valvrave‘. The two will be livening up the anime with a new song titled “Preserved Roses“.

Alice Nine will be releasing a new single “Daybreak” on March 20th, which will be the first from their 3 consecutive months single releases, but before the reveal they have released the 90 seconds version of the PV for the upcoming single on Unive...